(I'm sorry to be one day behind on the update.) It was found out that it was a gastrointestinal problem. I still have a stomachache every day, but it's much better than the previous two days. However, I used to be able to eat two large bowls of rice every day even if I didn't have vegetables, but now, one bowl of the small bowl in the restaurant is enough. Sometimes I can't eat it. Depressed. It seems that this time it is really old. No wonder people say that you can't get sick when you're older, and when you get sick, your body collapses. Embarrassed and depressed. In addition, thanks to the Six Desires Heavenly Demon for their daily tickets, as well as the tickets for the Dark Demon Dragon for these two days. It's useless to ask for votes anyway, so I won't say more. Try to resume normal updates as much as possible starting today. Please bear with us readers. Thank you to all the friends who have been paying attention to this book. ）

Hu Xiaoyan didn't go to see Huo Yuanjia. Instead, he took Yan Fu directly to the training ground.

On the training ground, according to Hu Xiaoyan's request, Wang Tingzhen was gathering troops and asking the boxers who had been arrested before to tell their crimes.

"We all have brothers and sisters. We are also learning about Western culture. According to the theory of the Boxers, should we also be killed? Oh. By the way, Li Hongzhang and Li Zhongtang also traveled to Europe a few years ago, so according to the theory of the Boxers, do you also want to kill Li Zhongtang? After Wang Tingzhen listened to the bandit's account, his eyes were fixed on Cao Futian. Under him, Cao Futian was the highest-ranking Boxer Rebellion.

"Our Lord Hu also came back from England, and his industry is almost all Western. Feeding thousands of people. So are you going to kill all of Master Hu and the tens of thousands of people who live on him! ”

"Answer me!"

The most annoyed by the Boxer Rebellion is Wang Tingzhen! He was the first soldier to follow Hu Xiaoyan. After returning to China from Hu Xiaoyan, he often communicated with Hu Xiaoyan. I am very grateful for Hu Xiaoyan's generosity and decentralization, so if you have any questions, you can find Hu Xiaoyan. As a result, Hu Xiaoyan never disappointed him. There is only one problem, and Hu Xiaoyan can't solve it. That is the problem of the shortage of non-commissioned officers.

Non-commissioned officers are not students who can become non-commissioned officers when they go to a military school, at least you must be able to understand military orders and maps! And these literate people are very few in Anhui. In desperation, Hu Xiaoyan had to send the few college students to the army to give literacy classes to the army, and arrested some soldiers to send them to the army. These people can't do anything else, and teaching is a trivial matter.

And many of the Christians the Boxers were literate! How can Wang Tingzhen not be annoyed? I'm complaining that there are too few literate people, and you're meowing and killing!

"I also studied with the German instructors, do you want to kill me too!"

Wang Tingzhen's saliva had already sprayed on Cao Futian's face.

Cao Futian knelt on the ground with a look of shame, and the members of the original Boxer Rebellion behind him also knelt down.

"Kneel neatly!" Wang Tingzhen looked at the sporadic dozen or twenty non-commissioned officers and students of the former Anhui New Army who were still standing.

"Good soldiers you bring!"

At this moment, he was really angry! After such a long time of training, as soon as Cao Futian, the boss, knelt down, the original junior brothers did not have a military order, and they actually knelt down! This makes him embarrassed as the main official!

"Let's go!" Hu Xiaoyan held back his anger.

The Boxers are unbearable! It must be broken up and re-arranged! But we'll have to wait until Anhui's reinforcements arrive. He now has about 8,000 new troops at hand. It was still a little difficult to digest the Boxer Rebellion, which was about 5,000. There are at least 3,000 new recruits on the Anhui side, who are already on their way. Although the non-commissioned officers there are not good, they should be enough to dilute the middle and low-level officers of the Boxers.

"You remembered to me that you are soldiers. Soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, and no one is allowed to move without orders! Three out of ten, behead the public! Wang Tingzhen ordered.

Hu Xiaoyan's steps to leave couldn't help but stop. But then he left. This time there were at least more than 3,000 kneeling, and these three out of ten were almost a thousand killed. However, Hu Xiaoyan believes that Wang Tingzhen will never really do this.

Sure enough, when Wang Tingzhen reported in the evening, Hu Xiaoyan found that these people had not been killed, but at least a thousand people had been incorporated into the death squad. These people were not armed with firearms, but with cold weapons. In wartime, he charged into battle as cannon fodder.

"These Boxers have all been brainwashed." Wang Tingzhen used a word commonly used by Hu Xiaoyan.

"They are simply not fit to be qualified soldiers, and we simply don't have enough time to reform them."

"You do things, I don't worry." Hu Xiaoyan waved his hand. It's really out of time. This time, because of Hu Xiaoyan's obstruction, the Eight-Nation Alliance spent a greater price and more time to attack Tianjin. But it also raised the anger of the Eight-Nation Alliance. It is impossible for the Eight-Nation Coalition to rest for many days before attacking Beijing, as it has done in history.

The latest news has not yet come because of the Tianjin Massacre. And near the embassy in Beijing, because Hu Xiaoyan cut off the telegraph line. Nor did the news from the embassy reach Tianjin. The Eight-Nation Coalition will inevitably accelerate the pace of attacking Beijing. They could not afford the death of so many ambassadors in the embassy.

After these Hu Xiaoyan returned, they wrote a letter asking the cavalry to take them back to the barracks. Wang Tingzhen also recognized. So he could only use brutal means to recover the Boxers. The most important thing is that if the Boxers are not subdued this time, then so many Boxers in the capital will also be their enemies in the future, if Cao Futian attacks or retreats against Zhao Sanduo, the leader of the Boxers? Or just two people confluence?

Wang Tingzhen did not dare to take risks. His current fate is tied to Hu Xiaoyan, and he dare not live up to Hu Xiaoyan's trust.

"You prepare, in three or four days at most, we will have a big battle, and then the enemy will be more than 40,000 or 50,000 people of the Eight-Nation Alliance." Hu Xiaoyan nodded to the table.

"What's next?" Wang Tingzhen was a little nervous, and his subordinates and the Boxers together were only more than 10,000 people. A lot of people still take the backward Manlisha rifle! The follow-up Model 1888 commission rifle has not yet arrived.

"Nope! It could be Russians, or Japanese. Do you think they won't take advantage of this opportunity? Hu Xiaoyan smiled bitterly.

"The Japanese are easy to do, they send troops, at most 350,000, but the Russians have always been cattle, and they are hundreds of thousands when they are dispatched."

"Hundreds of thousands?" Wang Tingzhen has nothing to say now.

"What about Lord Yuan's new army?"

If there is anyone else who can count on it, then it is only Yuan Shikai. But it's a pity that Yuan Shikai has already joined Southeast Mutual Insurance. How could he send troops before he had time to preserve his strength?

"Don't count on him. At least this year, we will be the only troops fighting the Eight-Nation Coalition and the Russians and the Japanese. ”

"This?" Wang Tingzhen was dumbfounded. He couldn't believe that the enemy had opened the gate of Beijing, but none of the loyal ministers had come to King Qin! Now he actually wants his boss, the leader of the militia, to stand alone!

In the past, Hu Xiaoyan expanded the army, but Wang Tingzhen was still a little worried. Although he was dissatisfied with the imperial court, he had no idea of rebellion. He was even a little worried that Hu Xiaoyan's expansion was to rebel, but unexpectedly, Hu Xiaoyan was actually a "loyal minister" of the Qing Dynasty! This made him a little unexpected and a little disappointed. The textbooks taught by those college students were all written by Hu Xiaoyan himself. Although there is not half a rebellious remark in it. But between the lines are all kinds of cynicism about the Qing Dynasty! Psychology, the more Hu Xiaoyan uses it, the more comfortable it becomes.

"What? Not confident? Hu Xiaoyan asked with a smile.

"Is the airship force dispatched?" Wang Tingzhen asked.

"Of course."

"Then I'll be relieved."

"But I'm not at ease." Looking at Wang Tingzhen's somewhat embarrassed eyes, Hu Xiaoyan smiled heartily.

"Just kidding. But you know, there are limits to airships, and you can't count on rainy and windy weather. We can't rely on it. Otherwise, you will die a miserable death. ”

"Xia Guan understands."

"It's good that you know in your heart, so that the troops are in the best state of combat readiness, and those people in the Boxers should also strengthen education. Grinding guns in battle, although useless, is better than doing nothing. Hu Xiaoyan shook his head helplessly.

"The lower official understands, and the lower official retires." Wang Tingzhen walked a few steps and then turned around.

"Kill your lordship. Unless all the subordinates and others are killed. So adults don't have to learn martial arts deeply, adults! Taking care of your body is the most important thing. ”

Hu Xiaoyan was slightly moved. He smiled and finally sat down in his chair. He'd been standing on his feet before. It looks like you're sitting on a chair, but your butt is still a finger away from the chair. Yan Fu and other literati couldn't find out. But Wang Tingzhen, who often comes into contact with Hu Xiaoyan, is very clear.

Wang Tingzhen then clenched his fists and turned to leave.

That night, Hu Xiaoyan gathered all the information again and thought quietly. Behind his inner room is the training ground. Outside, the soldiers were sitting around listening to the lectures of the non-commissioned officers and students. When there is light, it is to read and write, and when it is dark, it is to tell stories.

Hu Xiaoyan listened to these ups and downs not only did not feel noisy, but felt a little warm. Maybe it's a habit I developed when I was a child. When he was a child, there were only two people in the family, he and his mother, and his mother drank too much abortion pills, but instead of killing Hu Xiaoyan in the embryonic state, she fell into the root of the disease. Spent most of the day humming in bed. This humming sound constituted a permanent memory of his childhood, until he was sent to England by Hu Xueyan when he was six or seven years old. Because of the language barrier at the beginning, I didn't even have a playmate. Loneliness was Hu Xiaoyan's biggest enemy at that time.

Hu Xiaoyan is afraid of loneliness! So he learned to communicate with people, and he made a lot of friends when he didn't speak English well. Some disliked him, while others sympathized with him. But in the end, most of them became friends. This is also the key to his good affinity, and he can talk smoothly with Li Hongzhang and others and reach an agreement.

Listening to the sound of storytelling floating outside, Hu Xiaoyan successfully sorted out the information. In the afternoon, the latest intelligence also came. Foreign embassies are no longer able to hold on. And Enming doesn't seem to be able to withstand the pressure. Originally, he thought that Enming was at least a flag man, and the princes behind him could say a few words no matter what they said. But it turns out that man's greed is wireless. Relative to the benefits of those farms. Those princes were more interested in the industries of Hu Xiaoyan's light and heavy industrial base.

"Grab it, grab it. After you make a move, I won't be under any psychological pressure. Eun Ming, don't blame me. Blame your greed. Hu Xiaoyan sighed secretly. If he is willing to send money, I believe that those princes will not force Hu Xiaoyan, after all, the professionalism of those industrial facilities is too strong, and it is impossible to handle the overall situation without a knowledgeable one. Especially heavy industry, which is too expensive! The steel mill has been built for a while, but it has been losing money until now. The newly established machine manufacturing bureau in Ma'anshan has too few iron and steel workers because of insufficient technology accumulation. The amount of steel consumed is simply not enough to support the steel mills, which are large steel producers. But everyone knows that the steel mills are the ones who make the most money.

Putting down the information, Hu Xiaoyan began to write development opinions again. There must be a specific guidance document for steel mills, machine builders, as well as pesticide and fertilizer plants.

After Wang Tingzhen disbanded the troops, he walked to Hu Xiaoyan's window. Hu Xiaoyan was sitting at the table writing something with a pen. He knew that Hu Xiaoyan had earned more than 20 million taels of silver in the UK. And Hu Xiaoyan's father, Hu Xueyan, was only more than 20 million taels of silver during his strongest period. That's enough money for anyone to enjoy for a lifetime! But Hu Xiaoyan invested most of this money in industry and schools. And Hu Xiaoyan's food before marriage is sometimes not as good as that of recruits in the army. When Wang Tingzhen went to run errands, he saw Hu Xiaoyan buying a baked cake on the street more than once to satisfy his hunger. He ate it with relish, as if it were a supreme delicacy.

Wang Tingzhen's eyes were a little wet. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a figure in the corner of the wall, also looking at the window. Why is he here?